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April 12, 2008

G12: Red Sox 4, Yankees 3

After a 2:11 delay, Papelbon came in and struck Rodriguez out on three fastballs. On the 0-2 pitch, the two runners took off, which may have distracted Slappy, who whiffed on the 97 high heat.

In the 9th, Giambi (ccbb) struck out swinging, Posada (csfbbff) struck out swinging, and Cano (bsbfbffff) grounded out weakly to Pedroia.

26 pitches in all for Bot, who will likely have tomorrow night off. In six innings this season, he has 12 strikeouts (and only 1 walk).

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Rain delay with 2 outs in the top of the 8th. Cabrera on 2nd and Abreu on 1st. Slappy at bat and Papelbon in from the pen. He hasn't thrown any pitches.

Beckett looked great once again, allowing only one baserunner through the first five innings (and only 47 pitches). Manny gave him a 1-0 with a long home run to left-center in the fourth.

Beckett faltered in the sixth when Molina and Gonzalez both singled to start the inning. Two sacrifices - a Damon bunt and a Cabrera liner to center -- brought in the first run and a wild pitch brought in the second.

Down 2-1, the Sox finally slapped Mussina around. (They had two singles in each of the first two innings off Mussina, but two double plays and an outfield assist let him off the hook.) With one out in the sixth, Ellsbury singled to left and Pedroia doubled off the Wall. Ortiz -- in a prime spot to break out of his current slump -- struck out. Girardi came out to chat and the Yankees elected to pitch to Manny. Mussina threw an 88 mph fastball in the heart of the strike zone and Being hit it to deep right-center for a two-run double. Bruney came in from the pen and Youkilis greeted him with a single to put Boston up 4-2.

Beckett started the seventh by walking Slappy on four pitches. He got Giambi to GIDP 453, but then gave up a single to Posada and wild pitched him to second. Cano doubled off the Wall and New York crept to within one run.

In the top of the 8th, Okajima got two quick outs on four pitches, but then walked Cabrera on four pitches and surrendered a single to Abreu. Papelbon came jogging in -- and the tarp came out.

After last night's game, the bullpen owned a collective 6.17 ERA, and as high as that figure is, it was deceiving. Subtract the work of closer Jonathan Papelbon and set-up man Hideki Okjima, and the bullpen's ERA zooms to 8.88.

If he's here for two weeks, one thing we don't want him to do is sit every day. That's no good. That kind of gets in the way of his development. We'll probably work him in a couple of times a week over there at the minimum.

Alex Cora referred to his elbow injury as "weird" and something he's "never felt before". He said he should return to his daily routine today.

Michael Silverman, Herald: "Since 1901, the Red Sox and Yankees franchises have been duking it out." The Yankees did not exist in 1901, though I suppose that technically the franchise did. The American League did not have a team in New York until 1903, when the Baltimore Orioles moved and became the Highlanders.

David Ortiz: 0-for-13, 1-for-25, 3-for-39 (.077). Am I worried? Not at all. As I said recently in comments, I'm worried about Flo's bat like I'm worried about the sun rising in the morning. However, I am curious, should his slump continue, if he'll hear any boos at Fenway? I've heard Yankee fans boo Rivera and Jeter, so any insane behavior is possible.

Hi all. Just got in. Heard most of the game in the car (except when chatty daughter called; luckily that was when the Yankees scored).

Have to catch up with the threads, but not til after the game.

Laura, I did see your comment about wondering how Harvey and I were doing at the game. We had our usual pre-game argument over something stupid and unrelated, and then we did just fine during the game. Of course, he could be happy last night; let's see how he does tonight, if the Sox hold on!

yeah, def just switched to CBC for some HNIC pregame. damn, i wanted to see some quick snuffage.

oh and re: my sporadic posts, couple months ago i dropped my laptop right on the wireless card (this things like 8 years old...no functioning USB ports....durable as hell tho) so the internet was connected at like 1mbps instead of the usual 54. i gave up and just decided to watch. now im on the wife's comp:P

Wideman out as well, uh-oh...I'll be shocked if the Bruins play 5 in this series. I'll be awed if they play 7...and if they move on to the next round....I don't know what I'll think. My head will probably explode.

Carey Price is an amazing goalie though, I had the pleasure of watching him sweep into Hamilton in time for the AHL playoffs last year and dominate their way to the championship.

heh, well back home i have a decent enough one. i'm on the road right now though, so unless i want to sit at the desk (the actual network cable is like 1 foot long out of the wall) i'm basically screwed!

And I miss the ol regular gamethreading and you guys too. For one, it was a weird start to the year, and I'm all over the place right now. Haven't been able to settle into a routine but soon hopefully!

Hmmm. I know if I go to sleep they'll lose. I'm so torn. What's it looking like? I only have MLB.tv which is just showing a stills montage of men pulling tarps and Mr. Met walking around with an umbrella.

i just got goosebumps when i heard the Hockey Night in Canada song...best sports song ever. In fact, I think it's probably the best weekly sports broadcast out of all of the big ones (FOX/ESPN weekly baseball, Sunday/monday football)...i dunno, it's just well put together and a blasty blast.

I posted (I think) "Any news?" to AB at the Globe's blog, but it hasn't appeared yet.

I've posted a few comments on there that never went up. One of them was towards some complete idiot, I forget what exactly it was about but it was bad. It was a clean post, no swearing but they didn't put it up. I clearly pwned the person who posted the moronic comment (i think it had something to do with a menial stat, like pitcher wins)

The rain has stopped here at Fenway Park, and the crowd cheered as the grounds crew came on to the field to deal with the tarp. Though we were told in the press box that the team had not been cleared to play, the tarp is being folded and rolled up. It's coming off the field, though it seems that there might be more bad weather on the way.

The other day a commenter accused us of putting our own comments through but not others. This was not during a game thread, just during the day, when no one had checked the mod screen for a bit. We were like, sheesh, give us a break!

Man those Yankees got lucky with the rain. The sox were undoubtedly about to unleash a savage beating, the likes of which the world has never seen. I shudder to think of the consequences of such dominance. God must have felt some pity for the Yankees and ultimately, for the universe, as we were all about to be horribly traumatized.

7:24Apparently there is another band of showers coming through, which is why the tarp isn't entirely off the field. Jonathan Papelbon is warming up in the bullpen, and Kevin Youkilis was throwing on the first base side, but the tarp might be heading back on. It has been dry for about 20 or so minutes at this point.

7:27The tarp is back on the field right now, as the sky has gotten extremely dark. There was also just a bolt of lightning. Oh, yeah, and it's raining again.Apparently the forecasts were correct -- this time.

s1c, the college thing is quite fascinating. I learned a lot from listening to what my kids liked and didn't like about various colleges. Believe me, there are much sillier reasons used to eliminate colleges than their names!

Amy, I agree, its just funny listening to her go through the college lists. Last night she asked me about college visits. Taking a look at her list, I told her we would start college visits when she had the list below 20.

This is amazing. I just measured the distance from my last residence (Manhattan) to Yankee Stadium, and my current one (Boston-ish) to Fenway Park, and the distances are the same down to the tenth of a mile.

This is one of those times I used to dream of--living close to the park, long delay, and just going over and walking right in and getting a good seat. But I don't think they'd allow it thee days. Players taking field!

so cold there--a little north, it's totally fine. Found that out on the garbage outtaking that incredibly has now gotten two mentions in a Red Sox-Yankees game thread. Granted, both were from me, but still. We are ready to go!

People had to have left. Two hour delay. (Though I always think, You made tie to go to the game, stick it out and stay til the end! YOu had big plans on the night of a Sox-Yanks game you're going to??)

While driving home, we switched from the Worcester station to the SPringfield station as we started losing Worcester. There was at least a two second delay between two radio stations about 50 miles apart--we heard at least one pitch over. Very odd.